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i come to you today to speak to the

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entire nasa family and congratulate you

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all on another banner year for the

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agency

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this year

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your work made headlines around the

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world but more importantly it enlarged

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our understanding of the universe and

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our home planet

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inspired people and opened new frontiers

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for our dreams and aspirations

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i know it's been a tough year in many

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ways

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all of us lived with uncertainty about

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our agency's future direction

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and we all felt some sadness along with

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the exhilaration as each successful

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shuttle launch

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brought us one step closer to the end of

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one of our flagship programs

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in spite of the obstacles and

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uncertainties we faced it's a marvel to

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me how much we were able to accomplish

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this is a testament to your dedication

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and professionalism

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we live in a time of change and

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as president kennedy said about his

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charge to reach the moon

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we do these things not because they're

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but because they are hard

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because that goal will serve to organize

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and measure the best of our energies and

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skills

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his direction still holds

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we do the hard things because no one

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else can

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we do it to advance human knowledge and

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improve the human condition

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to take the easy path will not bring us

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to the future we want

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with president obama's leadership

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and bipartisan support in congress for

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nasa's authorization act

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2011 promises to be a much brighter year

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as we make steady progress to implement

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our new path forward

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over the course of the past 18 months

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we've put together a good management

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team to lead us through this transition

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adding bobby braun is the agency's chief

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waleed abdallati as the agency's chief

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and leland melvin as head of our

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education office

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as a management team

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we've had a couple of opportunities to

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engage in strategic planning and

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including one we just completed earlier

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this week

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and we're all on the same page and eager

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to move forward

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we made history this month

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as our partner in commercial orbital

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transportation system program spacex

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became the first commercial company to

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successfully launch a rocket and

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retrieve a capsule after intact re-entry

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we're on the cusp of opening an entirely

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new segment of the economy

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that will thrive on innovation and help

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create good jobs

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the cots team

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and the other companies working on their

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own milestones are helping us not only

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rethink how we do business but actually

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making it happen in real time

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i know we're keeping the textbook

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publishers busy because it seems like

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new editions of the standard text need

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to be written every time our scientists

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make a revolutionary finding and in 2010

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there were quite a few

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this year our scientists transformed our

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understanding of the moon

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detailed evaluation of the lunar crater

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observation and sensing satellite data

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along with help from the orbiting lunar

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reconnaissance orbiter

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showed us that our neighbor harbors many

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compounds chief among them water ice and

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it has a hydration cycle

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and while scientists gave us that new

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moon this year they also gave us new

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eyes on the sun with the solar dynamics

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observatory

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they pierced the veil of our solar

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system and discovered new things about

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planets orbiting other stars

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with the fermi observatory they showed

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us a previously unseen structure

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centered in the milky way

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that may very well be the remnant of an

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eruption from a super-sized black hole

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gave us stunning images of a comet

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the best we've ever seen and all from a

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spacecraft that had already fulfilled

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that's just a tiny sampling of the

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wonders coming out of nasa science

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here on earth

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we achieved our goal of turning our data

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into useful tools and making exploration

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technology work for everyone

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when 33 miners were trapped in chile

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their government called on nasa experts

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to help with the nutritional and

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behavioral issues the miners would

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before their successful rescue

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we help the world visualize the oil

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spill in the gulf of mexico by

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repurposing some of our earth observing

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satellites and finding new applications

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for some of the prototype hardware that

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was flying in airplanes

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our data helped illuminate and

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when disaster struck in haiti

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we were able to help there too

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and enable the world to see the extent

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of the disaster

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we also kicked off a new node of the

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severe system in nepal

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another example of how earth and space

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observations can be combined to help

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decision makers make good choices and

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respond to disaster

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among the big news for nasa in the

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president's new direction

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was extending the life of the

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international space station to at least

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which will allow us to more effectively

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plan for its use and support a wide

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variety of research and engineering

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this decision came on the heels of our

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milestones celebrating 10 years of

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continuous human habitation aboard the

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this year we conducted more than 130

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experiments aboard the station in

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demonstrations supporting the work of

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more than 400 researchers worldwide

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in the coming years we can expect

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advances resulting from the study of

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materials and structures in microgravity

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such as increased understanding of

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bacterial virulence and how liquid flows

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this focused approach will maximize the

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station's value to science in the coming

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years and its use by many more entities

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and we'll reap the benefits of this

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unprecedented model for international

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cooperation

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and the technicians

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and thousands of others who made each

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shuttle flight safe

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and enable the crews to achieve their

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mission goals earned our deepest

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admiration and gratitude

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our diligent focus on aeronautics

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research continues to pave the way

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toward the air transportation system of

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the future next gen

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we concluded an 18-month research effort

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working with industry to visualize the

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passenger airplanes of the future

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we continued efforts on many fronts to

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develop new airframe and propulsion

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technologies for significantly quieter

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cleaner and more fuel-efficient aircraft

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with better passenger comfort

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we'll all benefit from aero's hard work

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i know that everything we do here is a

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team effort

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and that we weave in thousands of

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volunteers and citizens and all walks of

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life

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to carry out our mandate to innovate

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inspire and achieve big things

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whether that's the teachers who help

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make our first summer of innovation a

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success on which we can build and expand

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next year or the hundreds of you who fan

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out across the country to schools and

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community organizations through our

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or mentoring in our support of the first

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robotics program you

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are all important

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you are all making a worthwhile

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contribution not only to nasa

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but also to our national life and the

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health of our country so thank you again

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your work is excellent

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your skills are noticed and your

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accomplishments are appreciated

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as we celebrate this holiday season

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observed around the world by many

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religions and faiths but celebrated in

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some way by all

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i wish all of you traveling safe travels

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if you're gathering with families

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enjoy the warmth the friendship and the

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love of this wonderful season

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remember the members of our armed forces

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serving around the world particularly

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those serving in harm's way at this time

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they sacrifice

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that we may continue to live in relative

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comfort and enjoy the way of life

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characteristic of this great nation of

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ours

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season's greetings to you all

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may you all enjoy a prosperous new year

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working with you